Jefferson County sheriff's deputies are investigating two separate shootings -- one last night and another early this morning. A 25-year-old man was shot in the face in the first; no one was injured in the second.

Deputies on Monday night responded to a call of shots fired in the area of Camille Street in Mulga but found nothing. A short time later, about 11:30 p.m., they received a call about a wounded victim at Princeton Baptist Medical Center who was undergoing surgery.

Witnesses told deputies the victim had been in the Mulga area and had been shot in the face, said sheriff's Sgt. Jack Self. Someone brought him to the hospital and left before deputies arrived.

Jermaine Leon Burts remains hospitalized in guarded condition.

Then, just before 3:30 a.m., deputies responded to Chalkville School Road in east Jefferson County on a report of someone firing shots into an occupied vehicle.

The victim told deputies that, at 1:30 a.m., he and a friend had run into a couple of acquaintances at a convenience store on Old Springville Road, Self said. They had exchanged words.

When he and his friend left, he told deputies, the acquaintances followed them. A short time later, someone from the following car fired several shots at the victim's vehicle.

The bullets struck the passenger's side door and window. No one was injured.

Self said both shootings are being investigated but no arrests have yet been made.